La Cañada Valley Sun

ARCADIA — Highlights were difficult to come by for the La Cañada High football team Saturday evening in a game that played out very much as a microcosm of the season and its struggles thus far for the Spartans. Turnovers, a lack of a running game and confusion from play to play stifled the Spartans...

Photo by Miguel Vasconcellos

La Cañada High's John Humphrey is stopped by Rio Hondo's Martin Chang during Saturday's nonleague game at Rio Hondo Prep.

Sports

LA CAÑADA — Looking to get back to the win column, the Flintridge Prep football team focused on having constructive practices throughout the week leading up to Friday’s eight-man contest against Bellarmine-Jefferson. After losing to Cate on Saturday, the Rebels went back to the basics and worked...

La Cañada History

Courtesy of María Escandó

Author Maria Escandon, the featured author in the 2007 La Cañada Flintridge One City One Book month, demonstrates her experience in the driver’s seat of an 18-wheeler. Her book, “Gonzales & Daughter Trucking Co.,” was showcased in the city’s annual celebration of reading.

Author Maria Escandon, the featured author in the 2007 La Cañada Flintridge One City One Book month, demonstrates her experience in the driver’s seat of an 18-wheeler. Her book, “Gonzales & Daughter Trucking Co.,” was showcased in the city’s annual celebration of reading. (Courtesy of María Escandó)

Ten Years Ago The La Cañada Flintridge One City One Book Committee, then gearing up for its annual October discussion of a featured title, in September 2007 announced that Los Angeles author María Escandón would be in town when her book “Gonzales & Daughter Trucking Co.” would be discussed. The...

Opinion

Your readers will remember that in “Gulliver’s Travels,” Jonathan Swift ridiculed the trivial disputes between the two main political parties in 18th-century England by imagining two parties in Lilliput whose only difference was that one ate boiled eggs starting at the big end, the other at the...

Last night, I received an email from the La Cañada YMCA saying “... our first responders fighting the La Tuna fire are asking our Y members, staff and volunteers to mobilize a water drive to collect most needed drinking water for the firefighters.” My husband and I joined the line of cars on Foothill...

Early in the morning on the day when the first signs of the La Tuna fire appeared, I was coming back from my usual hike on the trail that starts at the Angeles National Forest fire station on Angeles Crest Highway when I saw in the distance that a small hillside that usually has only a few pink...

Throughout the history of the West, the old adage remains true: “water is worth fighting for.” I believe our national parks are also worth fighting for. They are cherished places collectively known as “America’s best idea.” To protect both water and National Parks and in response to increasing...